Levine, RS (2019) Might one simple question indicate a child’s caries risk and guide preventive advice? British Dental Journal, 227 (9). pp. 834-836. ISSN 0007-0610
Abstract
That the extraction of carious teeth is the most common reason for hospital admission of under 18-year-olds in England suggests that a reappraisal of preventive advice in primary dental care for this age-group is now urgently needed. Dental professionals working under time constraints in areas of social deprivation and high caries prevalence need a simple approach to determining caries risk and simple, acceptable preventive messages to convey to patients. The advice not to give sugar-sweetened food or drink in the hour before bedtime and especially not to put infants to bed with a feeding bottle, other than one containing just water, coupled with supervised twice daily toothbrushing with a fluoride toothpaste containing at least 1000 ppm of fluoride might be a pragmatic way of reducing the burden of caries and the need for hospital admission for a largely preventable disease.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to British Dental Association 2019. This is an author produced version of a journal article published in the British Dental Journal. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Dentistry (Leeds) > Oral Surgery (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 22 Aug 2019 10:12 |
Last Modified: | 08 May 2020 00:39 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group |
Identification Number: | 10.1038/s41415-019-0858-6 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:149988 |